Getting tough on crime Monday, Feb 22 2010
1 8:00 am
Being tough on criminals is a universal campaign platform for politicians. One can always tell when a politician is planning to run for reelection; they start padding their resume’.
In Saturday’s Daily Monopoly we learn that one lege is getting tough on crime. ( Story here.) He has introduced legislation for the upcoming lege session to expand from 1,000 feet to 2,000 feet the area in which one cannot use or sell illegal drugs. This would include areas around schools, playgrounds, child day care centers, drug treatment centers, religious institutions and public housing units.
Why not increase the area to, say, 25 miles. That way, the use and sale of illegal drugs would prohibited almost everywhere in the state. Oops! It already is.
Our leges clearly aren’t underpaid as they allege; they are simply working too hard. Perhaps if their pay was reduced, they’d work less time and thus waste less of our time.
C.B.
